FLINT, MI-A group here is looking at ways of changing zoning ordinances to be more development friendly. The Uptown Reinvestment Corp. has bought seven parcels in the Downtown area.
ANN ARBOR, MI-The civil engineering company will help design the ArvinMeritor facility, which will include 15,000 sf of office space and 155,000 sf of manufacturing space, at Fort Street and Crawford Avenue in Detroit.
DETROIT- Cleveland-based Ferchill Group hopes to cash in on new traffic generated by the Tiger's Comerica Park and the Lions' Ford Field. It hopes to build a 10-story, 200-room Hilton Garden Suites by May 2002.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI-The law firm's success in Birmingham spurs growth here, where it becomes the first anchor tenant at 100 Bloomfield Hills Pkwy., taking 47,500 sf vacated by InterOne Marketing Group.
LANSING, MI-A lease land measure, brownfield authority rules and airport zoning changes are all on the governor's desk, says the Michigan Municipal League. Property assessments could be affected.
STERLING HEIGHTS, MI-Moore Flame Cutting Co. plans an addition for its manufacturing facility, which produces heavy steel plates and structural steel components, with help from a $1.2 million industrial revenue bond.
DETROIT-Phoenix Theatres offers the only first-run movies in this city after Cory Jacobson and Charles Murray take over the lease of the former AMC Bel-Air that had closed on Eight Mile Road, just east of Van Dyke Road.
DETROIT-The city is cited by BusinessWeek for $17 billion in economic growth either underway or on the drawing board, plus Mayor Dennis W. Archer's more regional view toward luring businesses to the area.
WHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP, MI-Brentwood Golf & Country Club is in a two-part transaction by Charleston, SC-based Golf Trust of America. Brentwood and Club of the Country in Louisburg, KS sell for a combined $5.25 million.
DETROIT- The organization receives $100,000 to open a college placement office in Troy, MI and bring more high technology firms into the area along I-75 to the north and south of high-tech, office-heavy city of Auburn Hills.